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• What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Loss, Men, Yawning

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• [Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.

  Kim Harrison

  Encouragement, Thinking, Phones

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• Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

  Stephen King

  Hunting, Night, Snacks

  "Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

  Isaac Marion

  Sports, Party, Events

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

  Robert E. Lee

  Boys, Helping, States

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• I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

  D. J. MacHale

  House, World, Safe

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Thinking, Waiting

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Art, Bed, Mutts

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

  Eric Weiner

  Simple, Want, Dies

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• Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Mean, Knowing, Important

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• Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Thinking, Trying

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• You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death; the crown of flowers I will never wear at my wedding." He knelt on one knee before me. "The little house I would have had of my own, to furnish and clean. That, too, is part of my dower." "I will give you the world for your footstool," he said. "And most precious of all, I give you the wee baby I will never hold in my arms.

  Martine Leavitt

  Baby, Flower, Giving

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• There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Airplane

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• The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems -- Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Dream, Ocean, Journey

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• Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Brother, Giving Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people worse off and we can surely spare a little from what we have.

  Frank McCourt

  Children, Heart, Mean

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• Good?” Cam said. “Right?” I took another bite and nodded. “Well, I have a whole ton of them at home.” He stretched as he rolled up his napkin. “Just saying.

  J. Lynn

  Napkins, Just Saying, Said

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.25, HarperCollins UK

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• Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.

  Patricia Briggs

  War, Causes, Fear Of Love

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Song, Wind

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• When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Couple, Husband, Divorce

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.127, Knopf

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• Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Destiny, Visits You, Shadow Of The Wind

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• All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,and I intend to end up there. Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way. Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Eye, Night, Thinking

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Who Says Words With My Mouth?”

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• I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Pain, Men

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Responsibility, Men

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.169, Knopf

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• He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had something to do with the knowledge that his parents’ house wasn’t truly home anymore — if it had ever been — and something to do with the realization that they hadn’t changed; he had.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Heart, House

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.247, Scholastic Inc.

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